Pseudotrochalus Quendenfeldt, 1884

Ahrens, Dirk, 2007, Type species designations of Afrotropical Ablaberini and Sericini genera (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae), Zootaxa 1496, pp. 53-62 : 59-60

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.177047

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6248375

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Pseudotrochalus Quendenfeldt, 1884
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Pseudotrochalus Quendenfeldt, 1884

Pseudotrochalus Quendenfeldt, 1884: 301 ; Burgeon 1943: 237; Machatschke 1959: 744; Kolbe 1914: 327.

Type species (here designated): Trochalus sulcipennis Gerstäcker, 1867 .

Originally included nominal species: Pseudotrochalus aereicollis Quendenfeldt, 1884 ; Trochalus atratus Burmeister, 1855 ; Trochalus breviusculus Fåhraeus, 1857 ; Trochalus chrysomelinus Gerstäcker, 1867 ; Trochalus crassus Fåhraeus, 1857 ; Trochalus falkensteini Kolbe, 1883 ; Trochalus longicornis Burmeister, 1855 ; Pseudotrochalus nigrosericatus Quendenfeldt, 1884 ; Trochalus obtusus Fåhraeus, 1857 ; Pseudotrochalus quadrisignatus Quendenfeldt, 1884 ; Trochalus rufobrunneus Kolbe, 1883 ; Trochalus rufolineatus Harold, 1879 ; Pseudotrochalus subtruncatus Quendenfeldt, 1884 ; Trochalus sulcipennis Gerstäcker, 1867 ; and Pseudotrochalus superbus Quendenfeldt, 1884 .

Type material examined ( Pseudotrochalus sulcipennis [Gerstäcker, 1867]); Lectotype (here designated): ɗ "44366 / Type / sulcipennis Gerst. * Endara Decken" ( ZMHB). Paralectotypes: 1 ɗ, 2 ex. (sex unknown) "Endara / Typus / Hist coll. ( Coleoptera ) Nr. 44366 Trochalus sulcipennis Gerst. Endara , v.D. Decken Zool. Mus. Berlin" ( ZMHB).

Remarks: The genus presently includes about 34 species but probably many other species so far assigned to Trochalus Laporte, 1832 should be transferred to Pseudotrochalus . In order to accommodate Pseudotrochalus in the current framework of existing genera in the tribe (principally based also on the works of Brenske and Moser) I selected the type specimen based on taxa present in the ZMHB. Of these taxa, the types of T. sulcipennis were more common and better preserved.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Melolonthidae

Loc

Pseudotrochalus Quendenfeldt, 1884

Ahrens, Dirk 2007
2007
Loc

Pseudotrochalus

Machatschke 1959: 744
Burgeon 1943: 237
Kolbe 1914: 327
Quendenfeldt 1884: 301
1884
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